Jenna Chandler is the editor of Santa Monica Patch (read her introduction to the site here). She studied journalism at Chapman University, where she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, <i>The Panther</i>, and interned in the newsroom at the <i>Orange County Register</i> and NBC News Los Angeles. In 2008, she was distinguished as the Register's Outstanding Student Journalist of the Year.
Jenna joined Patch in October 2010 as the editor of San Juan Capistrano Patch after covering crime and government at the <i>Porterville Recorder </i>in California's Central Valley. There she built a portfolio of stories that had resounding effects in the community, including a series that forced the City Council to reallocate thousands of dollars in misspent funds, and a weeklong report on public-sector salaries that led to the resignation of a city manager.
When she's not working, you'll find Jenna perusing record stores for Neil Young vinyl, eating pizza and hiking.
School district Superintendent Sandra Lyon sends a letter to families and staffers in response to the horrific shooting in Connecticut, assuring parents that faculty will be "extra vigilant" in the coming week.
Closures on Bundy Drive and Exposition Boulevard in West LA to last through the spring. Olympic and Cloverfield intersection to close overnight starting Sunday.
Waiverly Thomas, a convicted felon, enters a plea to four charges, including two counts of attempted murder, in connection with the shooting of a woman on Pico Boulevard.
Intimate concerts, poetry readings and dances by the hearth return to the Miles Memorial Playhouse at Reed Park starting this weekend.
The man had prior convictions for molestation and lewd acts on a child.
Selling Mountain View Mobile Home Park is also on the table.
New owners give the once-troubled Broadway Ale House some TLC and reopen as The Commons.
After two new members were installed, the Santa Monica City Council nixed a development agreement for the Village Trailer Park.
Police close the street while investigating reports of a man shooting himself Tuesday morning.
Utta Hollingshead of Utta Body Sculpture failed to report earnings she deposited directly into personal accounts, according to the IRS.
The owner of a Beverly Hills-based massage therapy business failed to report earnings she deposited directly into personal accounts, according to the IRS.
Police say the gunman fired several rounds at an 18-year-old woman from the sidewalk of Pico Boulevard.
Neighborhood group wants opinions about how to make the corridor safer, prettier and pedestrian-friendly.
The victim was in a car on Pico when she was hit multiple times while trying to escape her assailant, police say.
The theater is no longer interested in opening its fourth Santa Monica location where Parking Structure 3 stands today.
City planning department says it can't handle the large volume of applications it's receiving to build over-sized developments, mostly in downtown.
Police found Kevin Dwayne Green's monitoring bracelet the night he was arrested, four days after the fatal shooting of Oscar Duncan.
